St John Ogilvie Primary School

These are the learning experiences we plan to cover this term in Primary Two:

Hello P2B families!

Here are our highlights from the Blue Table: (The children have new seats for the new year so may now be seated at a different table.  They did have the choice of staying at their old seat if they wanted.)

Safaa enjoyed looking up Google Earth this week.  Our new Topic is ‘Local Jobs and Places of Work’.  After listing all the jobs nearby they could think of, we then tried to spot them on Google Earth.  I know some of the children were so excited about this that they looked up their address as soon as they went home!

Evana loved the story Mrs Lea read to the children called ‘Aliens Love Underpants’.  The class then designed their own alien and Evana drew her alien with stripes and zigzags on its’ underpants.

Amariah-Grace said the highlight of her week was playing in our ‘Barclay Medical Practice’ role-play area (linked to our new Topic).  She came to the doctors because she had a sore leg.  Thankfully, the doctor was able to make it all better.

Olivia liked our maths lesson on the months of the year.  The class worked together to create an AMAZING 2023 calendar for the classroom!  Olivia, (along with her partner, Karina) was responsible for August and the detail of that picture was impressive.   You will find your child’s fantastic contribution to the calendar on Seesaw over the weekend.  I know you will be as proud of them as I am!

Blair said he was really interested in the learning that took place around keeping safe in the home this week.  The children identified dangers in different rooms in the house and are keen to educate their family at home, if they spot anything that does not look safe.

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part of the week was our Number Talk lesson about using Friendly Numbers to help us find the answers to subtraction calculations (we will later make the link with addition).  We are going to be continuing this learning into next week but I was so impressed with how quick some of the children picked this new concept up.  Look out for a photograph below, of one clever cookie, demonstrating this to us.

Congratulations to Blair, our Hot Chocolate award winner this week!

Homework will resume as normal on Monday.

On Tuesday, we hope to go for a walk around our local area to spot some of the places to work that we found on Google Earth.  Please send your child to school that day dressed for wet weather conditions.  Thank you.  I will put a reminder of this out on Seesaw on Monday evening.

As always, thank you for your continued support and I wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR and I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Happy New Year to everyone from P4b!  It has been so lovely having everybody back and seeing everyone’s brilliant renewed enthusiasm for their new learning.

Our new numeracy topic this term is multiplication and division. We have been learning our seven times table and we have learnt that division is the inverse of multiplication.  Next week, we will learn our nine times table and we will be looking at multiplying by 10 and 100.  We will also be revising our other times tables across the term.

In literacy, we started the term by writing a recount about what we got up to over the Christmas holidays.  We have since been learning about how to punctuate speech using speech marks (inverted commas) and we have been improving our use of verbs, including using the past tense correctly.  We also used Word to publish our Hogwarts setting descriptions that we wrote before the holidays.  Mrs Brown was SO PROUD of us for our setting descriptions!  The level of detail included in our sentences was amazing!  We will be writing narratives in our writing lessons over the next couple of weeks and will aim to continue using our fantastic descriptive features.

In Spanish, we learnt how to say some classroom objects in Spanish. Mrs Brown’s favourite word is un sacapuntas, which means pencil sharpener.  We also played some games to practise our new vocabulary.

We also met Mrs Day-Lewin, who came to do some singing with her.  We enjoyed using different languages in some songs.

Our highlights:

Matteo: I really liked Spanish, especially learning ‘sacapuntas’.

Shelby: I really liked doing counting and writing on the laptops.

Ashley: I enjoyed singing with Mrs Day-Lewin.

Daisy-Dee: I enjoyed using the laptops to do my writing.

counting and writing on the laptops.

Ashley: I enjoyed singing with Mrs Day-Lewin.

Daisy Dee: I enjoyed using the laptops to do my writing.

Well done to Daisy Dee who was our hot chocolate winner this week.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and well done for a great first week back!

Mrs Brown

Hello Families of P2A

Happy New Year!

We’ve had a very busy and fun first week back, with everyone working super hard.

We welcome Miss Roscilli, a student teacher, to our class. We are very lucky to have Miss Roscilli working with us for this whole term.

The children came up with the idea to create a toyshop within our classroom. They then worked together to make a lovely little shop, which they called ‘Diamond Toy Shop’. I’m sure they’ll have great fun playing in this over the next few weeks. This also fits in nicely with our money topic.

Highlights:

Chimamanda – I liked making the Doves. These are a symbol of The Holy Spirit.

Rory and Caiden – We loved making the diamonds for our shop.

Grace – I liked doing free writing. I wrote a story about Power Puff girls.

Diana – I liked making our class calendar. I worked with Grace and we made November.

Vivien and Laura – We  loved everything this week.

Chahiti – I liked free writing. I wrote about a Ladybird.

Jack – I enjoyed building a castle with the lego during our STEM activity.

Huge Congratulations to Linda, our hot chocolate winner.

This is our overview for the term:

Have a lovely weekend!

We have had a very quick first week back and a great time!

Olivier and Inaya liked researching Scottish Inventions and creating a fact poster to show what they learned.

Sam enjoyed learning about function machines in numeracy, recapping our four operations work!

Joshua and Nilaya liked collaborating with their group to learn all about Robert Burns.

David enjoyed our planning conversation and brainstorming potential trips this term.

We have had a good first week, I loved hearing about the children’s winter break! This week the class have worked very hard and put in 100% effort! I’m very proud of you all.

We have been practising for our Burns Night later in the month and the children are doing brilliantly! We can’t wait to show you all.

some photos of our week:

Have a lovely weekend and I will see you Monday!

Mr Pentland

Hello P6B families,

We have had a great first week back after Christmas. It has been lovely to see everyone and hear about what you all got up to.

This week we have started rehearsing for our Burns performance and I have been really impressed with the Scots language. Everyone has been working really hard to learn their parts.

Our class highlights are:

• Vivien and Praise – enjoyed recapping our maths skills from last term and consolidating our learning about fractions, decimals and percentages.
• Summer – “I liked playing games in PE with Mrs Lafferty. The games will help me to be more ready and aware, which I can use in class!”
• Niamh – “I enjoyed developing my music skills when I played brass”.
• Aditya, Akash and Naman – enjoyed learning about Robert Burns through exploring some poems and researching about his life to create PowerPoints.

Well done to Naman who was this weeks hot chocolate winner. Naman has been very helpful in class by giving reminders about being ready and respectful.

Have a lovely weekend and see you on Monday!

Miss MacGregor